Questionnaires
HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONNAIRES - FIRST VISIT
The ECVM/A involves two visits, which means that each household is visited twice. The first visit takes place during the planting season. The second visit takes place during the harvest season. The household and agriculture/livestock, as well as the community/price questionnaire are administered during the first visit. During the second visit, the household and agriculture/livestock questionnaires are administered in full, but the community questionnaire only collects price information.
The household questionnaire comprises 18 sections, not including the cover page which covers information of a general nature (identity, name of household head) and Section 0 which covers detailed information on household identification and the results of the survey. In the first visit, 16 of the sections were administered.
- Section 1 focuses on the socio-demographic characteristics of household members (gender, age, relations with household head, survival of relations);
- Sections 2 and 3 focus respectively on the education and health of household members;
- Section 4 focuses on the characteristics of the labor market and seeks to determine whether the subject is inactive (retirees, for example), unemployed or employed; and in the case of those in employment, to identify the characteristics of their employment (socio-professional category, seniority, working hours, income etc.);
- Section 5 focuses on non-agricultural enterprises owned either by a household member, or by the household. The enterprises concerned are all enterprises in which a household member is the boss, a partner, or self-employed;
- Sections 6 and 7 focus respectively to the characteristics of the household dwelling (status of occupancy, nature of walls, roof, flooring, number of rooms etc.) and its equipment in terms of durable goods and production tools;
- Section 8 focuses on the income of household members which is not derived from employment (pensions, scholarships, income from rent etc.);
- Section 9 focuses on fund transfers made by the household to other households and remittances received from other households, and social assistance received by the household members;
- Section 10 focuses on negative shocks sustained by the household during the 12 months prior to the interview and the coping strategies adopted in this regard;
- Section 11 focuses on non-food household expenditure items (exclusive of education, health and accommodation which are addressed under the appropriate sections above);
- Section 12 focuses on food consumption (expenditure, auto-consumption, gifts and donations);
- Section 13 focuses on addresses other information on food consumption during the 7 days preceding the survey, with particular reference to food consumption according to food group;
- Section 14 focuses on food security;
- Section 15 looks at the aspirations of individuals from 15 to 25 years of age and the constraints or facilitators to those aspirations; and
- Section 16 looks at psychology and attitudes of individual 15 to 25 years of age.
SECOND VISIT QUESTIONNAIRE
The second visit household questionnaire is a reduced version of the version used in the first round. It includes information to determine if members who were in the household in the first visit are still in the household and if there are any new members. When there are new members, the questionnaire is used to collect limited basic socio-demographic information.
In addition, information for all households is collected on non-food expenditures of the household (Section 11), food consumption (Section 12), other information on food consumption for the past 7 days, notably the foods consumed by type of food (Section 13), and food security (Section 14).
Two new sections were added to the second visit household questionnaire.
- Section 17 is about the consumption of livestock owned by the household for the Tabaski festival; and
- Section 18 is about children between the ages of 5 and 15 who live outside of the household.
AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK QUESTIONNAIRE - FIRST VISIT
Like the household questionnaire, the agriculture/livestock questionnaire is divided into sections and sub-sections. In the first visit, which is administered in the post-planting season, three sections were administered:
- Section 1 collects information on the household’s access to land;
- Section 2 collects information about inputs, labor, types of crops, and costs for rainy season agriculture; and
- Section 3 collects information on agricultural equipment owned/used by the household.
AGRICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK QUESTIONNAIRE - SECOND VISIT
The agriculture and livestock questionnaire, second visit, collects information on the harvest and on livestock production in the household. The sections include:
- Section 1 collect’s information on the household’s access to land;
- Section 2 collects information about inputs, labor, types of crops, costs, and amount of harvest for rainy season agriculture;
- Section 4 collects information on livestock including type of livestock, reproduction, shelter, feeding, water, health, labor, meat production, milk production, egg production, use of animals for transportation and work, production and use of manure, and transhumance; and
- Section 5 collects information on tree culture and perennials, agricultural extension, and climate change.
COMMUNITY QUESTIONNAIRE
The community questionnaire has 7 sections. In addition, the cover pages collects general information (identification information, etc.) and section 0 provides the names of the respondents.
- Section 1 collects information relative to the existence and accessibility of social services;
- Section 2 collects information on the economy and infrastructure in the village/neighborhood.
- Section 3 is dedicated to health;
- Section 4 collects the characteristics of agriculture in the village/neighborhood;
- Section 5 looks at livestock and negative shocks which the community has been victim during the last 5 years;
- Section 6 reports community needs for infrastructure; and
- Section 7 collects local prices.
In the second visit, the community questionnaire was used only to collect local prices.